Progress update, 27 April to 3 May 2013
By Tim Causer, on 3 May 2013
Welcome to the progress update for the period 27 April to 3 May 2013, during which time great further progress has been made by volunteer transcribers: 9,828 words have been transcribed over the past seven days, including TEI mark-up.
5,549 manuscripts have now been transcribed or partially-transcribed, which is an increase of 25 on last week’s total. Of these transcripts, 5,267 (94%) are complete and locked. We are now on the cusp of being able to say that 95% of all submitted transcripts
The more detailed state of progress is as follows
- Box 2: 408 manuscripts transcribed of 753 (54%)
- Box 27: 350 of 350 (100%)
- Box 35: 280 of 439 (63%)
- Box 41: 0 of 528 (0%)
- Box 50: 135 of 198 (67%)
- Box 51: 358 of 940 (38%)
- Box 62: 53 of 565 (9%)
- Box 70: 261 of 350 (74%)
- Box 71: 663 of 663 (100%)
- Box 72: 608 of 664 (91%)
- Box 73: 151 of 151 (100%)
- Box 79: 198 of 199 (99%)
- Box 95: 120 of 147 (81%)
- Box 96: 526 of 539 (97%)
- Box 97: 54 of 296 (18%)
- Box 98: 213 of 499 (42%)
- Box 100: 149 of 422 (33%)
- Box 107: 315 of 538 (58%)
- Box 115: 275 of 307 (89%)
- Box 116: 394 of 864 (45%)
- Box 139: 38 of 38 (100%)
- Overall: 58% of the 9,497 manuscripts currently uploaded to the website have been transcribed thus far.
Box 107 was again the most heavily transcribed set of material during the last week. We are also glad to report that more material is also now available to transcribe: Box 41, containing material pertaining to Bentham’s massive, unfinished Constitutional Code.
Finds this week include Bentham discussing his scheme for counterfeit-proof banknotes (thanks to Joy Lloyd).
Earlier this week, the Bentham Project published electronically the preliminary text of the third volume of Bentham’s Not Paul, but Jesus, which has never been available before. In this work, Bentham discusses sexual morality, and argues that asceticism had been condemned by Jesus, whereas St Paul had taught and encouraged it. Bentham further argues that the reason why so many sexual practices were condemned or subject to harsh criminal penalties was owing to the teachings of Paul. This is an extremely important work, and has been edited by Philip Schofield, Catherine Pease-Watkin, and Michael Quinn, and has been encoded using a TEI schema developed by Kris Grint.
As always, we are extremely grateful to everyone who has taken part in Transcribe Bentham over the last seven days. It is very much appreciated by us all.
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Progress update: 5,549 mss worked on, 5,267 (94%) complete. 9,828 words transcribed (incl. TEI). Finds include JB… http://t.co/dCp0UPIgGO